do you know who john travolta is? >> a. >> that's how old we are? >> we are old. answer to that one is "welcome back kotter." >> the series lasted four seasons. there he is. >> come on. i love watching that. >> the series lasted four seasons but a jumping off point for john travolta. >> thank you for coming. >> kathie lee is on her way back. coming up next is your next big romance one click away. online dating dos and don'ts after these messages. we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions,

a john travolta "face-off" situation. >> we would be saying president stephen colbert. >> stephen: its have a ring. george stephanopoulos thank you so much for joining me. george stephanopoulos, host of almost everything on abc. we'll be right back. [cheerin

. >> an automobile belonging to john travolta is recovered.hey specialize in stealing classic cars and chop them up to sale the parts. the car was stolen off the residential street in santa monica. >>> the northern lights were in all their glory. it came courtesy of the largest magnetic storm to hit the earth since 2003. the green and orange lights are formed by electrically charged particles and spewing outward from the sun. you don't need a science degree to enjoy them. you don't have to cover your eyes either. >> amazing. >> [laughter]. >> amazing display. actually visible in the dakotas and maine. alaska was phenomenal last night. let's look at temperatures. no northern lights but we have some southern clouds moving in. 38 right now. no wind at all. humidity is up to 79%. 32.6 holding steady at the barometer. not going to drop a lot more. the clouds in the entire region, the temperatures will not fall much. 39 in carpalton. clear skies on the eastern shore. no clouds but they are right now, locally mid 30s to around 40 and may drop 1-2-deg

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and then john travolta's coming!" wow, obama was killing it! mean, nothing could stop his momentum. >> we got rid of one rule from 40 years ago that could have forced some dairy farmers 130-to-spend $10,000 a year proving that they could contain a spill because milk was somehow classified as an oil. and with a rule like that, i guess it was worth crying over spilled milk. >> jon: by the way, as inthob does comedy for a living, been there. and i can tell you from experience, the worst part isn't the crowd's reaction-- it's the wife's. >> with a rule like that, i guess it was worth crying over spilled milk. (laughter) >> jon: you know, what that face says? that face says "(bleep)ing told you that wasn't funny. i told you it wasn't funny." (laughter) spilled milk is not funny. not funny to me, not funny to children, it's not a joke. for me, cut atry the audience reactions is half the fun of the state of the union. clearly the director has gotten an advance copy of the speech so he can time each shot. when obama mentioned steve jobs, boom, cut away

he was best known playing the jewish puerto rican student juan epstein alongside john travolta in the '70s on "welcome back kotter." he was later a regular in "cagney and lacy." he passed away thursday morning after suffering cardiac arrest. he was 60 years old. >>> a photo circulating on the web this week is getting a lot of attention. we did some checking and found out the photo was taken a year ago, it's no less impactful and emotional when you consider the newborn infant's father was marine corps lance corporal andrew carpenter, was killed a month earlier. he was killed in action in afghanistan. >>> we want to make note of a history-making flight this week for the u.s. navy. the first all-female combat mission. the five took off in an e-2-c hawkeye aircraft from the aircraft carrier uss carl vincent. there is your crew. the navy says this is a significant achievement given that the number of female pilots in the fleet, less than 5%. though the number of female officers is growing. >>> the greatest show on earth taking place in the northern sky every night this week. this is what i

. >>> coming up, john travolta is gay -- ning weight for a new film. i love how he throws himself into a -- into his work. but first, topless women again. more of a fond look back. remember when we did that story in d block. dye topless ladies -- bye topless ladies. >> guests say at the econo-suite had -- suites and now serving come plaw men tree breakfasts. >>> they got lots of heat for a stupid tweet. two british tourists were arrested and detained for 12 hours in los angeles after the dude whose name is lay van brian tweeted, what sounded like a threat" free this week for a gossip prep before i go and destroy america. the department of homeland security didn't realize it was slang for getting drunk and partying. he was flagged as a potential threat. and vhs had other evidence against him. he tweeted "three weeks tag we are totally in l.a. pitching people so blvd and digging marilyn monroe up" that was a reference to family guy. homeland security didn't see it that way and searched their luggage for shovels before locking the brits up for the night.

. >> that was the show that made john travolta famous. he died of cardiac arrest.ing in new jersey. >> he had a very nonhollywood life. >> he really was my favorite. this move "ferris bueller" i've never seen it. let's play the super bowl ad. >> how can i handle work on a day like today? >> help me get it? >> in this iconic movie, he's the ultimate hookie player. they had the most ai maizing day in chicago. this is a grown up ferris saying february 5th, there's no way to go to work. that's super bowl. we think this is a tease to the super bowl. >> that makes sense because they say people miss work the monday after or they show up with really bad headache usually associated with too much beer and alcohol. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> we'll be right back. ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with

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a huge announcement they're going to do an entire beegees episode, barry gibb is involved and john travoltabut -- >> "saturday night fever" so good. >> i think the whole point of drawing an older audience, too. >> yeah. >> and let's talk about the new friend. you're supposed to schedule a facebook appointment to see your friend's baby? what is going on? >> this is a new trend we're finding at hot 99.5. a friend of mine did it and said so many people want to visit her, she's scheduling appointments on facebook. does this not sound unbelievable? >> okay. okay. >> all right. >> and literally and when we talked about it, we were getting responses that moms are saying many people want todro point and they overwhelmed. did you feel like you needed to schedule your appointment? >> i didn't need the scheduling, i just said come over. you know, look at how society's changing. people are now using facebook to set appointmens to see their best friend's baby. >> on your google calendar. >> show helped you make a facebook appointment en you can schedule in the timeframe. >> all right. >> there we go. >>

the latest literary trend is children's books by famous folks like john tra travolta, madonna, terrell owen yns. and daddy wants in. i have everything it takes. i'm a celebrity. i turn one of giants of children's literature maurice sendak author of where the wild things are and his latest bumbalardi. i hardly recommend it unless you are jewish. you can't read books about pork. stick with the very -- velveteen rabbi. thank you so much for talking to me today. >> pleasure. thank you. >> stephen: tell me about childrens literature. you think by writing books for children you are sending children the message that reading is important? >> very much so. yes. >> stephen: let's talk about kids. i don't trust them. >> is that true? >> stephen: their biding their time until we're gone and they get our stuff. they take our place. it's an interesting point of view. >> stephen: thank you. >> but not interesting to me particularly. there's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. it's quite amazing. >> stephen: what do you mean the complexity of child

. >> they should call john travolta. isn't he a big airplane fan? has one in his backyard? they better not blow it up. all kinds of trouble. >>> around the bay area today, what a day it was. spring-like almost out there as the temperatures soared well into the 60s a good five to seven degrees above average. 67 degrees today in redwood city. 67 in santa rosa. 66 in san jose. temperatures into the monterey bay snuck up into the 70s. outside now not bad. temperatures cooling off. 54 in concord 5. 5 oakland. 59 degrees in san jose. 55 oakland. 59 in santa rosa. that ridge of high pressure that brought us beautiful sunshine today breaking down a bit. the ridge will weaken tomorrow and temperatures coming down tomorrow afternoon but not bad. still 64 in mountain view with partly cloudy skies. 62 in fremont. about 62 degrees in oakland and about 60 in san francisco. the next few days changes in the weather toward the weekend. that ridge of high pressure going to weaken to allow a few more clouds tomorrow and again some patchy fog late tonight early tomorrow morning. by friday thou

my friend john travolta, "saturday night fever." "pulp fiction." remember this. do it again. whoo!w i see why the hip-hop community has embraced you. jane fonda is here. she has two new f >> that's the thing, people who are out of shape, never worked out, 70 years old, can do. >> jimmy: it seems like every person in the video is in good shape. >> well, it's all, you know, it's relative. but they're real people. they're not like buff people. >> jimmy: you rehearse with them and get them -- they learn the moves? because i couldn't do any of the moves even if i played it over and over again and i also think with a dvd with seniors, you know, i don't think the problem would be as much getting them to work out as getting them to work the dvd player. [ laughter ] that seems to be the challenge for me with my family. >> i know what you mean. i know what you mean. well, they're already best-sellers. they are. >> jimmy: all right. well, so, people -- well, they don't need to buy them then, right? we dug up your first video. it's on vhs. and you can see -- please rewind. [ applause ] there y

a young actor named john travolta was part of the cast and played the role of a guy named vinnie barberino. heyges played a jewish american character who frequently tried to get out of class by forging notes signed "epstein's mother." the role defined his career. robert heyges died yesterday after being taken to a hospital in new jersey in cardiac arrest. he was 60 years old. >>> divers continue their search for victims of the capsized cruise ship the costa concordia today. salvage crews are getting ready to pump fuel from the ship that ran aground in italy two weeks ago. nbc's michelle kosinski has the latest. >> reporter: it is hard to believe at this point it has been two weeks this massive cruise ship sat here on these rocks just off giglio island. the captain is still on house arrest but now his attorney tells nbc news he feels awful about this but at the same time unjustly demonized. he has told prosecutors it wasn't all his fault and he did not abandon ship but fell into a life boat. now officials are describing a night full of delays and downplaying and the company says he tried to

john travolta was also part of the cast in the role of vinny barberino. he recently tried to get out of class and always carried the tag line signed "epstein's mother." he died yesterday after being taken to a hospital in new jersey in full cardiac arrest. robert heyges was 60 years old. >>> we're learning more today about what happened in the moments leading up to actress demi moore's being rushed to an l.a. hospital. that happened on monday night. >> a 911 call captures a friend of moore's telling paramedics that she has inhaled too much nitrous oxide. >> okay. she smoked something. it's not marijuana but it's similar to incense and she seems to be having convulsion of some sort. >> okay. are you with the person at this time? >> i'm actually in the other room. but yes. >> okay. you have to be next to her so i can ask you some questions. we have paramedics on the way. >> okay. >> right now is she awake? >> yes, well semiconscious, barely. >> okay. is she breathing? >> is she breathing? yes. >> okay. she over dosed on -- >> she's convulsinconvulsing. >> k

john travolta, i know. mel gibson. jack nicholson you worked with. me, yeah. >> jimmy: what does that like, being directed by jack nicholson. >> he's really sentimental. i remember in one production, going into a rehearsal. we had our individual time with him. and jack was another gentleman. but i had a moment with him once, where we were sitting down. and he was going over the script. he had his bifocals on. and there was nothing in the room besides me, him and a stone bowl. >> jimmy: okay. >> it was sitting on the table. and he was going over the script. i noticed something very oddly familiar. like a piece of celluloid. that doesn't mean anything in this day and age. but back then, it did. i go, i know this from somewhere. i reach in and i pick it up. it's several frames of me coming out of a shower in "stakeout." my first film. i said, jack, what is this? right? and so, he looks up. and he kind of looked through his bifocals like this. and he looked down like nothing happened. what that meant is he went to somebody at disney and asked for those f

. >> thank you, john travolta. >> there's nothing better than a pre-fight fight at the press conferenceore the fight. you have a -- you can't wait for the fight. >> no, i don't know about that. >> a 30 second ad where newt gingrich has taken on mitt romney. you can't wait to see mitt romney respond. >> i'm one of the most competitive people that you'll find on the planet. hi, honey but the bottom line is that i think it's different when republicans are fighting republicans. i mean, it's different when it's a republican fighting a democrat, yeah, then you take the gloves off but republicans infighting, that's my question here. >> when you said honey, were you talking to scott behind the camera? >> i like him but not that much! >> i like scott a lot, too, but my husband doesn't like me to be so competitive. >> he does not like scott. >> we heard at the end of the sound bite with frank luntz, he was talking about barack obama, keep in mind, he ultimately will be the fella that one of those men or women in iowa tonight is going to face off against and interestingly enough, even though all e

then i do the john travolta. did you ever watch "saturday night fever?"r see him go down on his knees and bounce back up? by the way, i do wear knee pads, if anybody's interested. >> at 62 years old, tony sees no end in sight to his routine. he enjoys what he's doing too much. >> it's very, very important to enjoy what you're doing. in my presentations when i go to the schools, i tell the children they all have a gift inside of them. they have a skill they have to perfect. and when they do, they'll be happier on what they're doing when they're adults. and that's how i feel. >> next time you're having a hard day's work, i hope you think of tony and his dance moves. and if you have a video you'd like to send to us, you can logon to our website, caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera.

. >> thank you, john travolta. >> there's nothing better than a pre-fight fight at the press conferenceore the fight. you have a -- you can't wait for the fight. >> no, i don't know about that. >> a 30 second ad where newt gingrich has taken on mitt romney. you can't wait to see mitt romney respond. >> i'm one of the most competitive people that you'll find on the planet. hi, honey but the bottom line is that i think it's different when republicans are fighting republicans. i mean, it's different when it's a republican fighting a democrat, yeah, then you take the gloves off but republicans infighting, that's my question here. >> when you said honey, were you talking to scott behind the camera? >> i like him but not that much! >> i like scott a lot, too, but my husband doesn't like me to be so competitive. >> he does not like scott. >> we heard at the end of the sound bite with frank luntz, he was talking about barack obama, keep in mind, he ultimately will be the fella that one of those men or women in iowa tonight is going to face off against and interestingly enough, even though all e

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the church of scientology, known all over the world for its celebrity members like tom cruise, john travolta also known for its controversies, like when a spokesman walked out of an interview with abc news. or when a bbc reporter lost it when confronting that same spokesman. now, a new upheaval involving this woman, debbie cook, who was a high-ranking official for 17 years, until she left the church staff in 2007. >> she was one of the most prominent members in the entire world. any scientologist who has been involved for very long, has had face time with her as a respected person. >> reporter: days ago, debbie cook sent an e-mail to thousands of current and former church members, saying she is a completely dedicated lever in scientology, which has produced stunning and miraculous results. but that the current president has accumulated more power within the church than the founder of the faith, l. ron hubbard envisioned for any single successor. a charge former church official, marty rathbun, agrees with. >> he wanted checks and balances. but he thwarted his best intentions. >> reporter: coo

but i loved john travolta to the point where there was a moment in my house, up your nose with a republickerour nose with a rubber nose. to a point where i made the following phone call. 411. los angeles? travolta? they said it was unlisted. they wouldn't give me his number an wound up marrying someone else. we mourn the loss of epstein today. new details on demi moore's health crisis. the caller says the actress was having convulsions. and that's not all. trace gallagher has more from our west coast newsroom. >> reporter: this 911 call lasts 10 minutes. large parts of it are bleeped out because of california's medical laws. tmz reports she was using whipits. >> she smoked something similar to innocence. and she seems to be having convulsions. >> is she breathing? >> yes. >> she scwhroafer doses. >> she is convulsing. >> keep watching her closely. was it an accident or intentional. >> she smoked something, but the reaction was accidental. >> reporter: her publicist said she was suffering from exhaustion. a lot of the detail deals with her address, how old she is. listen as the dispatcher ask

welcome back, kotter" and we remember how popular the show was and of course launched the career of john travoltafor four years from 1975 to 1979, and every one of them iconic members. >> and you have more news on the condition of demi moore and what exactly happened? do we know? >> well, so much information out there, kyra, and a lot of speculation in the public eye right now sh, and i should poin out that you should not believe all of the reports out there, and you need to take some of them with a grain of salt. this is what we do know that people are reporting that she is suffering from a long list of ailments including eating disorders and stress and anxiety and exhaustion, and the 911 call from the night she was rush to the hospital will be released later, but parts of it edited for her privacy, but she has left the hospital so it is a sign she is getting the care she need needs. no news from the ex-husband ashton kutcher and there are photos of ashton partying in brazil, and a lot of people think that sends the wrong message, but i have to believe that he is of course, deeply concerned, and